'Get the bungee harness ready': Lib Dem leader Davey vows to keep doing cheesy stunts
Ed Davey vowed to keep carrying out cheesy stunts to get attention today, despite signs that voters are tiring of his antics.
He quoted Frank Sinatra today as he vowed to lead the Liberal Democrats 'my way'.
It came in his keynote speech closing a party conference that has seen him march at the head of a brass band, play cricket on Bournemouth beach and conduct a BBC interview while on a zip wire.
Apart from the stunts as a measure of his shallowness, Cheesy Ed is a curiously uninteresting politician. He seems to have no aptitude for being taken seriously on anything, as if the stunts are all he has. Even his rhetoric comes over as a series of rhetorical stunts designed to attract attention rather than serious consideration.
It may even be that Cheesy Ed doing it 'my way' isn't what Lib Dems want from their leader. His position isn't likely to be as precarious as Starmer's, but even Lib Dems could wake up one day.
4 comments:
It’s a curious phenomenon that modern day electorates want first and foremost for their Prime Minister/President to be likeable or even 'fun'.
Sod that for a game of soldiers – I want my political leaders to be principled and effective. I don’t mind if they eat their peas off their knives or use hurty words.
DJ - yes, the likeable/fun aspect is odd, although it fits quite well with voters angling for leaders who seem unlikely to disturb their comfort zones. Absurdly infantile but it seems to be so.
As I write this, I understand Ed Davey is at the Thames Water site at Richmond, joining in the ruling Lib Dem protest over planned works. Am waiting for the headline,
"Ed Davey falls into the water. Environmental authorities proclaim Thames is more polluted now than it was five minutes ago".
If only.
Penseivat
Penseivat - what a fun headline that would be. It would be considerably more polluted with an unsustainable increase in CC (Clown Count).
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